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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Scottish Labour Leadership Farce, free speech for Labour members banned at hustings as history is rewritten to paint millionaire Anas Sarwar as a socialist, if you pay money as a member then you are entitled to question candidates and not have them screened out to produce a ‘fairytale’, the 'many' can't question the 'few'

Dear All

It seems that the Scottish Labour Party in the shape of chair
Linda Stewart decided to ban people’s right to free speech at Labour leadership
hustings. As many people know the Scottish Labour is sinking, where it was seen
once as the force in Scottish politics, it now trails in third place.

It was entirely wrong to attempt to rewrite history by banned
questions about candidates' finances; it is for members to ask searching
questions of anyone who puts themselves forward to be leader. Last night was a
farce, and rightly branded so, if anything, the stupidity by the chair only
fanned the flames that Anas Sarwar is one of the few.

Lat night the ‘many’ where banned from asking the ‘few’ to
be truthful and open!

So, what was the point of last night’s stage managed event
with allegedly pre-scripted questions?

There was no point, Scottish Labour want people to pay £12
to vote in the Scottish Labour race to decide if Srawar or Leonard should be
leader, so what are you paying for if you can’t ask questions?

Who was the winner last night, by default, it was Richard
Leonard because clearly the chair was in the wrong by her actions.

Questions about candidates' finances were banned at first
hustings amid controversy over the wealthy background of hopeful Anas Sarwar.

Chair Linda Stewart unveiled the ground-rules of the farce,
she said there should be no questions “about a candidate’s marital status,
domestic circumstances, nor pertaining to the candidates’ financial
arrangements”. Anas Sarwar has questions to answer to members about his
decision to send his children to private school and the fact his family’s firm
are not unionised and don’t pay the real living wage.

It seems that being a millionaire in the Scottish Labour
Party has privileges.

The event was a disaster for Scottish Labour which appears
to be attempting to keep the Blair Faction or Progress in control of the party
in Scotland,
to me it seems that if Sarwar wins then Momentum gets their Scottish fight.

Anas Sarwar was quick to jump on a BBC reporter over his
personal life saying he should be talking about policy instead, but this shows
Anas up as a hypocrite as he calls on Nicola Sturgeon to sack Health Secretary
Shona Robison. It seems that Anas is like Marie Antoinette, he wants his cake
and eat it as well.

Richard Leonard, who is being backed by supporters of Jeremy
Corbyn, said he wanted to “reconnect” with the trade union movement if he
becomes leader. Given there is trade union in Anas Sarwar’s family business,
this will get him many votes.

Leonard added:

“I am a democratic socialist motivated by the desire to
change society for the better of the many not the few.”

And to show that the winds of change at least outside the
party favour him over Anas Sarwar, three unions declared support for Leonard.

I don’t know of any trade union in Scotland backing Anas Sarwar or
likely to back him in the future.

So, let’s get right down to it, who do the SNP and the
Scottish Conservatives want as Labour leader in Scotland?

Anas Sarwar!

Anas Sarwar increases the chances of the SNP hanging on to
power because he won’t attract voters back to the party, and if the
Conservatives stand a real chance in 2021, then they need a member of the Blair
Faction in place.

Paying £12 to vote in a contest where you aren’t allowed to
exercise free speech in a party that claims it believes in social justice is a
joke; there are better ways to spend £12.

3 comments:

Fingers crossed for Richard Leonard, then eh? Sarwar is exactly the sort of person that has destroyed labour and the left-wing credibility in the past ten years. No more SNP, no more champagne socialists. Time for a proper left wing vs a proper right wing again.